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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 16031660 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) (Hardcover)

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‘… this is such an interesting book and one with so many important insights to offer … The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary book, one whose approach to early modern culture should be a welcome provocation to historians and literary scholars alike.’ Early Modern Literary Studies

‘[Bellany’s] sensitive and scholarly account reminds us that if a single preoccupation dominated the political thinking of the English Renaissance, it was the provision of good counsel to kings.’ London Review of Books


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This is the first detailed study of the political significance of the seventeenth century’s most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority and the tendency to dismiss scandal as politically insignificant. The book adopts a multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach to the Overbury affair and its complex political meanings. It explores the factional politics that made and destroyed Overbury and his murderers, reconstructs the news culture through which information about the scandal circulated, analyses the creation and composition of the early Stuart ‘public’, and decodes the representations of the affair that were produced and consumed during 1615–16 and in subsequent decades. By situating the Overbury case both in short- and long-term political contexts, the book offers a reading of court scandal’s place in the cultural origins of the English revolution.

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